axpeilenc© ms my visit to Sant<X„Boaa, om of the famed bird i^ands of 
Neither pictures nor word^s can ad^juately describe the teeming 
of one of these guano islands. This was our farthest eouth. 
Peru. 
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On January 15th we dredged in the channel betwem North and 
Middle Chiacha Islands, the best known of the Peruvian bird islaadB, 
and on tl-e 17th moved up to hobos de Afuera* 
W© worked off and along shore at ilanta, Ecuador, January 19 end 
E0| and in succession along the Solombian coasts Gorgona Island, Jenmry 
21 and 22|; Port U trla, January 25-26? and Octavla Bay, Januazy- 27. The 
last stop before the Canal Soae was Pejxss Bay, Panama, January 28 and 29. 
In nearly all of these bays the invertebrate collections proved very much 
worth while. At ilanta a few birds were also takai for the Museum Hay 
Elliott, Kind at Port Uti'ia nuaeroiis specimens of the Indo-Paciflc coral- 
gall crab .Infesting the bi’michiag coral, PocilloT>ore» were collected. 
This species of crab, Hantdocarciniis aersuoialiSj ms fomid to range as 
far acs.“th as the Secas I aland s, Republic o f Panama, north of the Canal 
fishes that caae to hand were saved, and porpdses were hunted 
on a niniber of occasions, but without success, 
\ Five days, Januaiy SO to February '5, ?re,re spent at Patisme 
refueli^.g, mtoring, and replenishing oui* provisions, A day wee given 
to collecting »t Bella Vista, assisted by «r, A. Bend and Mrs. E» D, 
.Robson, leC^correspoxident^ of the Museum, 
It was at the Secas Islands, reached on Febmaiy 4th, that we 
establisl'ied the farthest north record on the C®trfil American west coast 
Ftir Bapslocarclnus and also captured our first and only porpoise. On 
these supposedly diy Islands, so listed in the coast pilot, we found a 
small stresia of I'lmning watei*, got a couple of freshseter fish, a number 
of freshwater shrimps, and two snakea^On the aornlng of Februcry 7 we 
left about breakfast time for a round of Costa Rican Bays* Playa Blanca, 
Feb. 8? Port -Parker, Febiu&iy 9 and 10? and Salina^Jay, February 10 
and 11. The collecting accompli sJied at each of these stops will without 
doubt, when worked up, add greatly to our present meager knowledge of 
the Cos'ts Rican marine invertebrate fauna. Selinas Bay, by the way, is 
to be the terminus of the proposed Nicaraguan- ■ csaal.* 
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After a hop -of phre& days, we made fenacatita Say, Mexico, 
on February 15, and with further collecting at this previously visited 
locality obtained a number of invertebrates not encountered in our collec- 
tions of the year before. In attaapt was made to leave Tenacatita on 
the sixteenth, but the weather was so rough outsine that after twa hours 
of the worst buffeting I have ever experienced at sea Captain Hancock 
put back to port. By the next midday the wind had veered from north to 
south, laid the waves considerably, and made a second start northward 
practicable, though not altogether comfortable. Brief stops were mad© 
at Santa Marla Bay and Cedros Island, Lower California, to get the ship 
ready for San Diego and also to time our arrival there for the aorning' 
of the 21st, I 
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